During the height of colonial rule in Southeast Asia in the 19th century, two young men from Indonesia and the Philippines sailed across the ocean to Europe, to train under great painters of their time. They steadily earned their place within ...

First exhibition on Impressionism in Southeast Asia shows how this influential art movement transformed painting with a bold new use of colour and style.   If the conservative art academy in 19 century Paris had its way, the only paintings recognized as masterpieces ...